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The Civil Rights Movement:

After World War II, African Americans and other civil rights supporters challenged segregation in the United States. Their efforts were vigorously opposed by Southern segregationists, but the federal government began to take a firmer stand for civil rights.
Little Rock School Crisis, Arkansas, 1957